This is the embryo of a new story idea I am begining to flesh out. Just a taste not the finished copy today…
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
A preview of Christmas-y short story I’m working on…
Current mood: artistic
Category: Writing and Poetry
“How can you just keep driving!”
Sam was completely up in arms. She and Kris had [...]
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Friday, November 28, 2008
Tiny Tim said it best
Category: Life
Every year to prepare for Christmas, the kids, Diallo and I always watch Henson’s Muppet’s Christmas Carol. I love the original Charles Dickens classic and I remember watching the theater production in college. I love the story. But the Muppet version is something as a family we [...]
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Friday, November 14, 2008
Hmm, What am I thinking….
Current mood: contemplative
Category: Life
I have been spinning Mary Chapin Carpenter’s cd The Calling. (I am also reading a book by Robert Coles, more L’Engle stuff, and Dostoevsky so not all pressure for my ranting here falls on MC2) I really am provoked by her cd. Maybe it’s one of those [...]
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008
For my autistic, down syndrome friend
Current mood: blessed
Emily, I wonder what goes through that pretty head
You look up at me and won’t say a word
Emily, big brown eyes and coal black hair
Just to feel my skin you take my hands in yours
Bang the table, hands flap, pages fly,
Watching you just freezes [...]
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When you are hit with the blues for some reason
Inexplicably
While normally you may be sunshine and light
Bizarrely
You feel as azure as a Sri Lankan sapphire
Where do you go
Curiously
When the doldrums
Unquestionably
Come in like high tide
Do you for comfort hide
Temporarily
In the arms of dear authors
Sensibly
For the stable sage wisdom of their words
Perhaps for peace you cling
Desperately
To the [...]
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I love the Nouwen Society. Henri J. Nouwen is one of my favorite writers. This came in an email to me this week.
(This is an art piece, “Trash or Treasure” by Karen Garrett at the Dallas Arboretum - karengarrettartist.com)
On the Journey Toward Radical Hospitality
written by VICTORIA S. SCHMIDT
My friend Isaiah, is a missionary who works in [...]
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Monday, September 01, 2008
In Memorium 09-06-07
Category: Life
I can’t remember the first time that I read anything by Madeleine L’Engle. But I would imagine that it was A Wrinkle in Time like most people. I do however remember vividly when I fell in love with Madeleine L’Engle’s writing. I read that same book aloud [...]
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But That’s What I Hear
You call me first instead of waiting
For me to reach out to you
You never think much about it
But I do.
You act as if I know things
As if I have a contribution to your world
even in the little things
You don’t do it to remind me of my value
But [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized, life, poetry, purpose, relating well, relationships, wonder on July 30th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“The challenge for those of us who care about our faith and about a hurting world is to tell stories which will carry the words of grace and hope in their bones and sinews and not wear them like fancy dress.” -Katherine Paterson
(the lovely older lady is Ms. Paterson the author of numerous books including A [...]
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I really love this song. Although for my interp, I am not so crazy about the line that says, “I broke them all for you”, but if you left that out the following song would speak to purpose for me. It speaks to “story” for me and what I love writing, reading , knowing, and remembering [...]
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